Main card fighters and MMA legends Tito Ortiz and Wanderlei Silva were the top earners at this past weekend’s UFC 132 event.

Both competitors earned disclosed flat-rate paydays. Ortiz netted $450,000 for his upset victory over Ryan Bader, and Silva scored $200,000 in a disappointing first-round loss to Chris Leben. The two fighters combined to secure 50.9 percent of the $1,277,000 total disclosed payroll for the event.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today requested and received the list of disclosed paydays from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

UFC 132 took place this past Saturday, July 2, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The night’s main card aired on pay-per-view, and the preliminary card aired on Spike TV and streamed on Facebook.

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter’s income. They also do not include any other “locker room” or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays. They also do not include portions of the pay-per-view revenue that some top-level fighters receive.

For example, as previously reported, UFC officials handed out additional $75,000 UFC 132 bonuses to Condit (“KO of the Night”), Ortiz (“Submission of the Night”), and Cruz and Faber (“Fight of the Night”).

In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.

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